U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Ginsburg Edition

They're normal people.

All they want is to be left alone in their average home.

SCOTUS maintains access to mifepristone, rules that the parties bringing the suit didn't have standing.

“Try again”

As many have pointed out already the plaintiffs had no standing under, there never was any question about that. Kasczmaryk needs to be removed from office.

-under-

His legal malfeasance isn’t even hidden

took them a year and a half for this wasted attempt

xpost Boring otm

I agree with Alito the plaintiffs didn’t have standing. But in general it reads—see Kavanaugh—like they know their legitimacy hangs by a thread.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) June 13, 2024

how could they not know this? they are constantly churning out decisions that ignore precedent and clear constitutional language, they know what they are doing

I think it's pretty clear Alito and Thomas could give a shit about legitimacy

It would be nice if this decision had any restraining effect at all on the Federalist Society kooks in the 5th Circuit. But that is probably hoping for too much.

Alito and Thomas are, like, "Look, don't embarrass us. Come back with a more legit case."

There's plausible deniability, and then there's what Kaczsmaryk, Alito, and Thomas do. In a functional country all three would be in impeachment proceedings.

“Try again when it’s not an election year”

If, and obvs this won't happen and i shouldn't even dare hope, Dems win pres election + senate + congress could they so something about this rampant supreme court?

they could if decorum didn't stop them

They could politely ask them to do better

put bear traps at Alito/Thomas houses

I doubt they're gay

Oh c’mon they’re TradCaths put a cape on and speak Latin and they’ll be eating out of your hand.

Have they been on Red Scare yet?

And in a country where only 29% of the population describes itself as Catholic (and still free would consider themselves TradCaths) it is very weird (it’s deliberate) that the majority of our Supreme Court are “daily Latin Mass”Catholic integralists.

20 percent by the latest Pew Research poll, I see.

There should be at least one Scientologist

Chief Justice Tom Cruise

Associate Justice Doug E. Fresh

Tom Cruise wants everyone to be polite and a pro i think TC would be good

With Justices like Tom Cruise in them you can’t lose

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/13/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-travel/

https://wapo.st/4ckvoln

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took three previously unreported trips paid for by conservative Texas billionaire Harlan Crow, according to new documents released Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee...Crow released the information after the committee issued subpoenas in November for him and conservative activist Leonard Leo to provide information to the body. The subpoenas have never been enforced.

Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said the documents provided necessary transparency and the trips should have been reported on financial disclosures.

And what will you do about it, Senator?

what "catholic" means as a concept to the right at present is a subject for long inpenetrable panel discussions but in brief there's a sense in which a spectre of Catholicism, which isn't the Church (this isn't no true Scotsman territory -- this is legitimately a sort of alt-universe Catholicism, a personally-but-also-communally constructed Catholicism, a subjective Catholicism), informs the Alitos in the corridors of power

Crow’s office said in a statement that he gave the senators information covering the past seven years and that the committee “agreed to end its probe with respect to Mr. Crow.”

“Despite his serious and continued concerns about the legality and necessity of the inquiry, Mr. Crow engaged in good faith with the Committee,” the statement said.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet-flights-senate-investigation-scotus

Oy veh, Durbin does as little as possible

what "catholic" means as a concept to the right at present is a subject for long inpenetrable panel discussions but in brief there's a sense in which a spectre of Catholicism, which isn't the Church (this isn't no true Scotsman territory -- this is legitimately a sort of alt-universe Catholicism, a personally-but-also-communally constructed Catholicism, a subjective Catholicism), informs the Alitos in the corridors of power

I didn't leave the church, the church left me

@shannonrwatts
BREAKING: In the 6-3 vote, SCOTUS strikes down the ATF's ban on bump stocks, claiming that the ATF exceeded its authority. The regulation was created by the Trump administration after the Las Vegas mass shooting; the Court is now to the right of the Trump administration

ugh

Also a 5-4 anti-immigrant decision by Alito where he's ok with a defective notice to the immigrant

massive continuing fuck you to every piece of shit that told me some variation of, "lol calm down, Trump can't do that much damage"

Though it's important to note that the two biggest right wing assholes on the court came to us courtesy of the establishment Bush family

It took SCOTUS just 25 days to keep Trump on the ballot after the Trump v. Anderson oral argument.

Today marks 50 days since the immunity hearing. Will we finally learn in Trump v. US at 10am whether/how the election-subversion case can go forward?

It took SCOTUS just 25 days to keep Trump on the ballot after the Trump v. Anderson oral argument.

Today marks 50 days since the immunity hearing. Will we finally learn in Trump v. US at 10am whether/how the election-subversion case can go forward?

— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie) June 14, 2024

Taking their time on this one.

too busy laughing maniacally while praising the universal overlord villain in the evil underground zoom room

waaaaaaaaaaaay off topic, but i'm curious what a completely new judicial system would look like, if you could start from scratch and use everything that we have learned. the rot in the current one goes from the very top to the very bottom

While going to the bathroom with the mic on: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/toilet-flush-supreme-court-livestream.html

Bring back trial by combat

In 1974, the Watergate special prosecutor squared off against President Richard Nixon over his refusal to release Oval Office tape recordings of his conversations with aides. Nixon argued that he was immune from a subpoena seeking the recordings.
...The chief justice, Warren Burger, who had been nominated to the court by Nixon, wrote the opinion. Total elapsed time: 54 days. Nixon subsequently resigned.

As of Tuesday, 110 days had passed since the court agreed to hear the Trump immunity case. And still no decision.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/opinion/supreme-court-trump-immunity.html

That part doesn't bother me so much, i.e. what did you expect? That horrowshow will come in the next week.

I think the issue is that the decision has already been made but they've decided to release a bunch of other decisions first, just to show how much they don't give a shit about "urgency."

It’s great how our highest court just loves to power trip and fuck with us with such contempt for their amusement

it's not easy to craft a decision that give Trump total immunity while still allowing him to lock up the criminal Joe Biden